To take full advantage of the museum and all its collections, first go to the large square called Cour Napoleon. Here you're surrounded on three sides by the historic building that was once the...
To help you avoid losing your orientation, I'll outline how the Louvre is organized. Oriental antiquities are located at level 0 of the Richelieu and Sully wings, where you can admire many objects and...
You are in front of one of the most exciting works in the Louvre, the stele on which the so-called Code of Hammurabi - the earliest collection of written laws in the history of man - is engraved....
You're standing before Venus de Milo, one of the most famous sculptures of Hellenistic art and also one of the most impressive representations of feminine beauty.
"Our Lady of Beauty", as...
You are now in front of the most famous painting in the world. Well, you might not be standing right in front of it, you could be in the middle of a crowd; everyone wants to see La Gioconda by...
You may not know, but the Mona Lisa was the object of one of the most sensational robberies in history. A maintenance worker for the Louvre, the Italian Vincenzo Peruggia, detached the painting from...
You probably know that the Louvre contains three works by Caravaggio: the first is the early La Buona Ventura, depicting a gypsy reading a gentleman's hand, the second is the Portrait of Alof de...
The masterpiece by Antoine Watteau that you're admiring, known as Pierrot or Gilles, symbolizes the new French artistic and cultural season that occurred between the end of Louis XIV's lengthy...
Jacques Louis David was the dominant figure of painting in his time. Thanks to his exemplary clear style, virtually two entire generations of French painters between the 1700s and 1800s are bound to...
You're standing before The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault, the protagonist of European art in the early decades of the nineteenth century.Born in Rouen at the end of the 18th...
You are now looking at a painting called The death of Sardanapalus By Eugène Delacroix, the most iconic and exuberant exponent of French romantic art. Delacroix is the most prominent...
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